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Post by BuckSkin on May 31, 2016 7:09:51 GMT
My wife takes lots of pictures in the "portrait" orientation (I seldom ever do) and thus several of her outdoor pictures end up a bit off plumb, thus requiring straightening/plumbing to make the light-poles, house-corners, etc. appear straight-up-and-down.
At least so far as E7 is concerned, using the "straighten" tool, I have found no way to "plumb" images, only "level" them.
Often there will be perpendicular edges to reference from and no horizontal edges.
Therefore, I often find myself rotating the image 90*, using the straighten tool along one of the now-horizontal edges, and then rotating the image back to proper orientation.
In doing this, I have never been able to detect even the slightest deterioration of image quality.
Whether it makes any difference or not, one thing I always do prior to editing an image is to convert it to PSD.
However, with all that being said, if anyone knows any trick that will allow using the straighten tool in vertical orientation, it would sure save me the two rotation steps.
Thanks.
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Post by michelb on May 31, 2016 7:25:06 GMT
However, with all that being said, if anyone knows any trick that will allow using the straighten tool in vertical orientation, it would sure save me the two rotation steps. Hold the Alt key pressed when clicking on the straighten tool and drawing a vertical line. That works in both portrait and landscape mode. I you edit in ACR (raws or jpegs), the program automatically detects if you are drawing a vertical or horizontal line (Alt is not necessary as far as I know). |
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Post by BuckSkin on May 31, 2016 8:08:40 GMT
However, with all that being said, if anyone knows any trick that will allow using the straighten tool in vertical orientation, it would sure save me the two rotation steps. Hold the Alt key pressed when clicking on the straighten tool and drawing a vertical line. That works in both portrait and landscape mode. I you edit in ACR (raws or jpegs), the program automatically detects if you are drawing a vertical or horizontal line (Alt is not necessary as far as I know). That is just too obvious --- hold ALT for an alternate orientation; I would never have stumbled on that by myself. Thanks so much. |
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Post by Tpgettys on May 31, 2016 15:46:43 GMT
Great tip michelb ; that's a new one to me also! |
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Post by Sepiana on May 31, 2016 16:36:46 GMT
Hold the Alt key pressed when clicking on the straighten tool and drawing a vertical line. That works in both portrait and landscape mode.
Just make sure you don't press down the Alt key before you click or you will activate the Eye Dropper/Color Picker tool instead.
Another option to straighten vertically is to press down the Ctrl key (Cmmd on a Mac) as you drag the Straighten tool.
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Post by cats4jan on May 31, 2016 18:05:38 GMT
When will we ever learn all that those extra keys do? It's amazing.
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Post by alexr on Jun 2, 2016 18:43:35 GMT
And a thanks from me, too. This has always niggled me but I've never thought to ask, just been resigned to rotating, straightening and rotating back.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 17, 2016 15:46:43 GMT
This discussion has saved me quite a bit of time and aggravation in straightening images on the vertical axis and many thanks for enlightening me.
However, for me at least, using the ALT key makes the image do all sorts of weird things; holding the CTRL key during the process accomplishes the task.
Thanks everyone.
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Post by Squirrel2014 on Jul 17, 2016 17:36:28 GMT
Thanks for asking the question, Buckskin, and thanks for the various methods leading to solutions  |
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